Saturday, June 30, 2012

Russia possesses “objective observation data” concerning the downing
of a Turkish jet off the Syrian coast one week ago and is prepared to
present it, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference in
Geneva on Saturday.

“We have our objective observation data and we are prepared to present it,” Lavrov said.
An F-4 fighter jet of the Turkish Air Force was shot down by Syrian
air defenses on June 22 and crashed in the Mediterranean Sea. Syrian
authorities said the jet had violated its airspace while Turkish
officials claimed it was attacked over international waters.

Turkey responded by moving air defense weapons close to the Syrian border.“The main thing now is not to allow any incident to ignite passions in one or another direction,” Lavrov said.

Since Turkey was going to start the overtproxy war on Syria, has Lavrov issued a warning to Turkey to keep their "passions" in check?

The story quotes an Israeli air force source as suggesting Russia had a
hand in the incident: “We would not be surprised if these Russian
experts, if they didn’t push the button, at least were beside the Syrian
officers who did it.”

Syria’s Information Minister Omran al-Zubi said last week that Syrian
soldiers who downed the plane may have thought it was an Israeli
aircraft.

Initial reports on the Turkish Jet included reports of it being an Israeli jet and as I mentioned in a previous comment, LVB had mentioned the jet had possibly been squawking Israeli code.
There was a curious little sentence in a DEBKA report

"This was also the first time in five years any weapons system with
Israeli manufacturing input had faced a Russian weapon acquired by
Syria."

You know when the last time was?

"September 6,
2007, when Israeli fighter-bombers demolished the Iranian-North
Korean-built nuclear reactor in the northern Syrian town of Al-Kibar"

The part about the reactor is Israeli spin from where I sit. However Israeli bombers did get through Syrian defences at that time.

Questions: Is the Israeli "source" doing some damage control? Was the Turkish jet, actually Turkish? Was it Israeli? Was it emitting Israeli code? If so would this demonstrate a level of collusion between Israel and Turkey that PM Erdogan can not afford to have public? Given his acquiescence to Israel on the Mavi Marmara?

The U.S. backed away from insisting that the plan explicitly
exclude President Bashar al-Assad from any role in a new government, hoping the
concession would encourage Russia to put greater pressure on its longtime ally

"There is a credible alternative to the Assad regime," she said.

Moscow had refused to back a provision that would call for Mr. al-Assad
to step aside, insisting that outsiders cannot order a political solution for
Syria and accusing the West of ignoring the darker side of the Syrian
opposition.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov underlined that the plan
does not require Mr. al-Assad’s ouster, saying there is 'no attempt in the document to
impose on the Syrian people any type of transitional process."

Kofi Annan said ""I will doubt that the Syrians who have fought so hard to have
independence ... will select people with blood on their hands to lead them," he
said."

In reference to who exactly?

The Britain based Syrian
observatory for human rights, said following the agreement that "no member of
the Syrian opposition will accept to be part of a transitional government while
Assad is still in power."

"Assad’s staying in power will mean the continuation of the
bloodshed in Syria"

An international conference held in Geneva Saturday accepted a UN-brokered peace plan for Syria
but left open whether the country's president could be part of a transitional government.
Russia's foreign minister said that the UN-brokered peace plan for
Syria agreed on by major powers does not require the ouster of President Bashar Al Assad.

Changes in Syria's government have been ongoing and a diversity of persons are already involved in that government.

Regarding the death of New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid?Came across this and thought it interesting

Friday, June 29, 2012

Senior officials
from major powers and regional players failed on Friday to overcome
differences on a plan for political transition in Syria Russian diplomats told Reuters after the meeting that Moscow could not agree to a political solution imposed on Syria.

China also has resisted attempts to impose
solutions on Assad, but Russia is seen as the bigger obstacle to ousting
him. One Western diplomat, leaving the meeting, said it was still "nine
against two".

Nine against two- Which means Russia and China are staying the course.

Russia proposed changes on Thursday to Annan's
plan for a national unity government in Syria, despite initially
supporting it, but the United States, Britain and France rejected the
amendments, Western diplomats said.The suggested changes are related to Moscow's refusal to support the ouster of Assad.

Russia has not once, from anything I have ever read, supported the ouster of Assad. The Russian position, to date, has always been that Syria's leadership is the choice of the Syrian people. Their stance has always been the same. It is not about supporting Assad, it is about the Syrian people choosing.

Assad said "We will not accept any non-Syrian, non-national
model, whether it comes from big countries or friendly countries. No one
knows how to solve Syria's problems as well as we do"

For Assad to make this statement, very firm, very sure, suggests he has the support necessary to make just such a statement.

Russia: International talks
on the Syria conflict should pursue a formula for a political
transition but must not decide whether President Bashar al-Assad is
barred from a possible national unity government.

Lavrov: "We do not support and cannot support any kind of
meddling from outside, the imposition of recipes. This applies to the
fate of Bashar al-Assad. It, this fate, must be decided by the Syrians,
the Syrian people themselves"

Thursday, June 28, 2012

That was the headline the NYT's initially had up. Now it's changed.
Was it giving to much away?
Interesting paragraph in the article:

"Rebels initially sought to present that attack’s perpetrators as a
defecting unit of the elite Republican Guard assigned to the television
station, but local residents told journalists that the only guards there
were local security guards, not military units. The attack on the
Republican Guard base earlier in the week was described by the rebels
themselves as only a probe by a small unit of fighters.

Can you imagine the rebels fabricating something? Anything? Lots of things?

All of Syria’s non-government opposition forces are expected to come together at a meeting convened by the Arab League in Cairo on Sunday. That such a gathering is happening for the first time in the 16-month-long uprising is telling.

Yes, it is. Very telling. Anyone still think the elections in Egypt were legit?

Indeed, the two sides couldn't find a common position on the threat
of a nuclear Iran. Netanyahu urged Russia to call for tougher sanctions
on Iran and to demand that Tehran stop its nuclear enrichment program.
Israel, the United States and a number of Western countries believe (there is that "belief" thing again, not fact, not truth, just belief)Iran
is attempting to build nuclear weapons. (While Iran says its nuclear
program is solely for peaceful purposes, Israel has threatened a
military strike if Iran refuses to stop enriching uranium.)

Putin's response was that he saw negotiations as the only solution,
and that it was "unacceptable to think of mutual destruction" ...( I don't know what the rest of the quote is but what follows is not it, and is Israeli spin) as would
result from a nuclear conflict between Israel and Iran.

Progress wasn't forthcoming on the other point of contention, Syria.
Russia has supplied arms to the embattled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad,
while Israel has called for him to step down.

"Russia today is aspiring to re-emergence as an international power
and it is interested in stability. [It] wants to do business and it is
not in Russia's interest that there be chaos in Russia's former client
states," said Dekel Chen.

Golan noted that the Russian-Israeli couple is not alone: There is a
third partner in the room, and that's America. "The Russians are in a
political competition with the United States, and one of the things that
motivate the Russians is to maintain a relationship with Syria and Iran
because that gives them a standing vis-a-vis the United States," she
said.

"Putin stressed that all disputes should be resolved on the basis of
international law. “We think it is unacceptable according to
international law to think of mutual destruction, regardless of who is
voicing such threats,” he said in comments translated into Hebrew"

"Even before
these latest incidents, Syria had begun reporting increasing number of
military loses to better armed Islamic rebels. It's clear that Western
powers and allied Turco-Islamic interests are now pushing the envelope
in the Levant. I personally think it's a time concern for them. It was
clear last year that the West sought armed intervention in Syria by
this spring. They were planning on a Libyan scenario. What Western
powers may not have anticipated, however, was the steadfast resistance
it has been shown by Moscow.

Let's
call it as is, had it not been for direct threats by Moscow, had it not
been for Russian arms shipments to Syria, I have no doubt NATO forces
would have been operating inside Syrian territory by now.The primary difference between Syria and Libya has been the Russian factor.
Thus far, it has been the provisions of Russian made anti-ship and
anti-aircraft missile batteries and the willingness of Assad's forces to
use them is what's keeping Syria's enemies off of Syrian territory.
Once the cradle of Arab nationalism, Syria has become a victim of Arab treachery and stupidity. Arabs remain amongst the world's most easily manipulated and sacrificed sheeples
Libya and Syria are glaring examples of who the leadership of Sunni
Arab states throughout the Arabian peninsula and North Africa serve.
Recent events also prove beyond any doubt that "Al-Qaeda" is the Islamic
paramilitary wing of Western intelligence agencies. There should no
longer be any doubt about this.The Western alliance has turned the stomping grounds of Mohammad into a stinking brothel and it has done so with the willing participation of brain-dead Sunni Arabs.

Needless to say, much is now dependent on Moscow. How far will Moscow go if NATO and its regional allies up-the-ante by
invading Syria? Will Kremlin officials decide to go to war in defense of
Syria as it has been suggested by some Russian officials or will they
continue supporting Damascus from the sidelines? How will Moscow
respond if Russian interests in Syria get attacked?
If NATO invades Syria will Moscow react by moving military units into
Georgia? If Damascus is facing an imminent NATO military intervention
will Iran respond by sending military units into Syria? What will
Iraq's Shiite majority government react to all this? Will renewed fighting flareup between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah? What role will Kurds play? What role will Sunni Arab dictatorships throughout the Arabian peninsula play?

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The announcement came only after Mr. Annan had made concessions over
which countries would attend. Conspicuously absent from the list of
invitees were Iran, the strongest regional ally of President Assad of Syria, and Saudi Arabia, a prominent supporter of Mr. Assad’s enemies.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey V. Lavrov will attend along with foreign ministers from other
permanent Security Council members Britain, China and France. Also
invited are emissaries from Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, the European
Union, the Arab League as well as Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

The concession to Russia was the absence of Saudi Arabia.
The concession to the US was the absence of Iran.
Not really a biggie in the grand scheme of things

Critical to the outcome will be whether the United States and Russia can
bridge their differences over Syria. The United States has demanded
that President Assad step down.

Russia, the main military supplier to
Mr. Assad’s government,has rejected any solution in which political
change in Syria is imposed by outside powers.

Why not mention that the US has been the main support behind the opposition?

Let's see what come out of this meeting?

Also interesting take about 30 minutes and give this a listen from James Corbett

Eric
Draitser of StopImperialism.com joins us today to discuss Putin’s
re-election as Russian President last month and what this means on the
global stage. We talk about the threat that Putin poses to the Western
power bloc’s imperial ambitions, the destabilization campaign in Russia
and its ties to Western NGOs, Russia-Sino relations, and the latest
developments in Syria.

Buoyed by support from his country’s NATO allies, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
warned Syrian forces on Tuesday to stay clear of their troubled border
or face a Turkish military response to any perceived threat

“Every military element that approaches the Turkish border from Syria in
a manner that constitutes a security risk or danger would be considered
as a threat and would be treated as a military target,” he said in a
speech to lawmakers attended by Arab diplomats.

The Turkish border is also the Syrian border. Erdogan is aware Syria has a right to defend it's territory and is now using language that indicates if Syria dares come near it's own border Turkey will consider it a threat and use military force.

Of course Erdogan has had no problem breaching Syria's border all along. Since June of last year. When the first big attack came through.

Since then, the 550-mile border has become a critical fault line and
potential flash point, used by an increasingly sophisticated network of
activists in southern Turkey smuggling crucial supplies into Syria
including weapons, communications gear, field hospitals and even
salaries for soldiers who defect.

The Turkish military mobilized large numbers
of reinforcements from its eastern provinces to the Syrian border on
Tuesday, amid rising tension with Damascus, after the downing by Syria
of a Turkish Air Force jet on Friday, Turkish media reported.

Large numbers of Turkish troops — including at
least 15 long-range artillery pieces and tanks – moved to the Syrian
frontier from the eastern city of Diyarbakir. A video published by the
Turkish Cihan News Agency showed Turkish tanks being transported by
carrier trucks toward the frontier.

The father of one of the pilots says it is not appropriate to go to war over this incident

The father of one of the two missing pilots
who were shot down in Friday’s incident told Turkish newspaper Hürriyet
Daily News that he opposed Turkey going to war over his son.

“It is not appropriate for a country to go to
war over a pilot, an airplane or 50 airplanes,” Ali Erton said. He said
he was aware of the risks his son took as a military pilot, but added
“what matters is that my son serves his country.”

NATO's despicable statement -

Thanks Felix!

Where is the concern for all the Syrians being killed by NATO's terrorists?

Will a no fly zone be the next move? As NATO desires?

What the hell is going on? Why the meme creation? Is a narrative being created for some kind of biological warfare? Of course, I don't know. The continuous news such as this, Bangor Maine drills for Zombie Apocalypse has got my suspicions aroused. Or should I say "my spidey senses are tingling" ?

Meme creation and narrative set ups are not uncommon these days, so why not include the creation of a concept of zombie apocalypse? We witness narrative creation everyday via the main stream media. Every single war narrative has started somewhere and been built upon through so called news reports until finally the peak is hit, conditions are right, troops and weapons in place, then the shock & awe begins.

All this zombie stuff has called to mind this sad, scary and sordid news. A few years back, 2008 to be precise, an incident took place, in Canada on a Greyhound bus. The attacker was allowed by law enforcement to stay at the scene and commit brutalities unrestrained on his victim, in full view of other passengers, who law enforcement had conveniently moved to just the right viewing position.

In 2008, there was no media meme on zombies. Only your typical "mad man" and such.
Now, everything is zombies and zombie attacks. Why?

An ordinary means of travel for ordinary people.

As I followed along with the reports, discrepancies appeared. Inconsistencies became apparent

Problems with the time line. Problems with the police response. Or lack of response. The way the remaining passengers were moved to the best seats in the house. The leaking of a specific audio clip. I doubt it is available any longer. The clip was police talking of the cannibalism that was taking place on the bus as they stood and watched. So much of what happened appeared as if done to maximize the trauma.

"Why didn't they do something in that three hours, rather than having my
son locked in with this maniac who, there was no question, had done
this? And (they) allowed him to defile my son's body in the way that he
did? What was their game plan? Why did they wait for him to throw
himself out a window or fall out of it?"

First: Christopher Alguire told the police repeatedly to shoot the attacker, instead they stood around for 4 to 4 1/2 hours.

Secondly: He criticizes the RCMP for moving the passengers to the windshield of the bus, enabling them to witness the atrocities being committed to the young victims body, after he" shepherded" the passengers to the back of the busWhy
would the RCMP do that, unless they had intended to further traumatize
the other bus riders? They had the highway closed in both directions, so
there was no traffic danger.There is no reasonable answer for this action.

Just to make this whole sordid tale more bizarre, after the McLean/Li incident, law enforcement put two other individuals onto buses with tragic results. One in BC. One in Ontario.

Three tragedies on buses, in one short span of time. Nothing since. Bus travel has been uneventful save for crashes etc. Recently it has been in the news that Vincent Li is being allowed day passes.

You know what else is odd?

Vincent Li, the perp is of Chinese descent, born in China. Tim Mclean, victim, young male 20is.
The perp in the latest cannibal/zombie incident is Newman/Magnotta 20ish, Canadian born.
His victim Jun Lin is 30ish, Chinese descent, born in China.
It is as if these two incidents are the photographic "negatives" of one another

" A negative image is a total inversion of a positive image"

Vince Li

Tim McLean

There has been comparisons made of Magnotta & Li Magnotta similar to Li?
There is a post from last month on the Magnotta crime, which also involved cannibalism.

with video!

The undead are wreaking havoc in Maine — in a unique emergency preparedness drill, at least.

About 100 first emergency responders
from eight counties in Maine were summoned to Bangor to contain a
"zombie apocalypse" Thursday in an exercise intended to train them to
react to a mass casualty even.

“If they don’t receive the anti-zombie drug, they progress to stage two
and then on to the ‘undead’ stage,” Kathy Knight, director of the
exercise's organizer Northeastern Maine Regional Resource Center,
explained.

An unknown virus originating from Jamaica has reached Maine, turning
the infected into zombies. Once infected, the virus quickly spreads to
the brain, and turns the host into a full-fledged zombie, who has only
one thing on its mind: biting other people.

The officials
were armed with two would-be vaccines – one to prevent the infection
from reaching the brain, and one to bring the zombies back to life.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc also said for the first time
that Syrian forces had opened ground fire on a CASA search and rescue
plane shortly after the downing, but did not say if that plane was hit.

But they kept this news quiet all this time. Until now, that is? Why?

Turkey said Monday it would push NATO to consider Syria’s downing of a Turkish jet as an attack on the whole military alliance.

The announcement came on the eve of a meeting by NATO’s governing body to discuss the incident.

Of course Turkey announced this uncorroborated news right now. Timed to hit the news at just the right time. To coincide with the NATO meeting

Arinc said Turkey retained its right to “retaliate” against what he
called a “hostile act,” but he added, “We have no intention of going at
war with anyone.”

Turkey will push NATO to consider the armed attack under Article 5 in
a key alliance treaty, Arinc said. Article 5 states that an attack
against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all
members.

Syria: At a press conference in Damascus, Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman
Jihad Makdissi called Turkey’s version of events “baseless and
inaccurate.” He said the plane had been flying fast and low in an act of
“aggression on Syrian sovereignty,” according to the official news
agency SANA.

Turkey: Syria not only knew the plane was Turkish, but took a “deliberate”
decision to target it, according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk
Unal.

Syria: The anti-aircraft defenses were automatically triggered when the plane approached the Syrian coast.

He cautioned against NATO involvement in Syria ahead of a meeting
Tuesday called by Turkey, saying that Syria was prepared to defend its
territory.

“I want to reassure everyone that the Syrian territories, waters and airspace are sacrosanct for the Syrian army,” he said.

He also issued a warning to Turkey about its role in hosting the Free
Syrian Army, whose leadership is living in a refugee camp in southern
Turkey. Turkey is also reported to have been helping facilitate an
effort to supply arms and funding to rebels inside the country.

“There
is a crisis in Syria, but the solution cannot be through aggravating,
mobilizing and arming the movement in Syria, nor through hosting
entities that do not believe in a political solution but rather believe
in militarizing the movement and undermining the stability of the
neighboring country, Syria.”

All this news hitting the main stream media today about mass defections?
Turkey and FSA don't even corroborate one anothers stories

Turkish news outlets reported that a fresh wave of defectors from the
Syrian army had recently crossed the border, including a general, two
colonels, a major and at least 33 soldiers.

But officers with the Free Syrian Army in southern Turkey said the defections weren’t new.

Makdessi pointed out that the Syrian anti-aircraft
defense used a land-based anti-aircraft machinegun with a maximum range
of 2.5 kilometers, and that the wreckage found by the Syrian authorities
and delivered to the Turkish side with an official record shows holes
in the tail-end of the plane which confirm that it was shot down by a
ground-based machinegun, not missiles.

"Had
the aircraft been over territorial waters, we would have used missiles,
not a land-based anti-aircraft machinegun with a maximum range of 2.5
kilometers... all of this confirms the falsity of the allegations that
the aircraft was shot down outside Syrian territorial waters," he said.

In
response to Davutoglu's statement that the aircraft wasn't alerted,
Makedessi said that the Syrian anti-air defenses operate automatically
in such cases, and that even if the unidentified aircraft was Syrian, it
would have been shot down in the same manner, adding that that
machinegun that shot down the plane isn't equipped with radar; rather it
had visual confirmation of it approaching it at a distance of 1 to 2
kilometers at an altitude of 100 meters and at a speed of 800 kph.

Makdessi pointed out that Syria suggested to Turkey to
form a joint military technical committee to visit the site of the
incident in Lattakia to inspect the reality of what happened, but the
Turkish side didn't respond up to the moment, adding that rescue
operations are ongoing with coordination between the two sides

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Two plane narratives in one week, both convenient propaganda for NATO aspirations regarding Syria.
One looks as if it may have run it’s course. Another appears as if it still has legs.Let's catch up with that before it runs away!

Where are the pilots? The Syrian pilot and the two Turkish pilots? Why is the media still reporting the Turkish pilots as missing?
Why has no one found the "defected" Syrian pilot? The media sure hasn't found him.

The Turkish Pilots.

It seems odd when just two short days ago PM Erdogan was quoted , directly quoted, saying

"At this moment the air force and navy are conducting search and rescue operations in the western Mediterranean and luckily our pilots are alive, we have just lost a plane,'' he told journalists while travelling back from Brazil.

I find it unbelievable that Erdogan would make such a statement to the world media, unless he had been made fully aware of the situation. It is simply not credible to think otherwise. He knew the pilots were alive he said so, very clearly, very explicitly. “Luckily our pilots are alive”

This extremely important admission has all but disappeared from the main stream media created narratives, especially western propaganda type outfits. The narratives today are leaning towards retribution, of course

"We will maintain close contact with Turkish officials as they continue
to investigate the incident and determine Turkey's response, including
in the Security Council," she said. "We will work with Turkey and other
partners to hold the Assad regime accountable."

NATO has said it will discuss Turkey's accusations, while Britain,
another member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has offered
support for "robust" international action.

Can't wait for the killing of innocents.

I spent some time perusing the media releases today and noticed the Turkish Pilots continue to go unidentified. Two days later. Odd. Considering the emotional appeal these faces would have at this time?

Worth taking the time to read

LVB @ LVB Research has gathered some interesting information and put it together in a post:

Whether the pilots did indeed survive as Erdogan originally stated or if there were no pilots at all as LVB suggests, and makes a god case for, it won’t matter to NATO. The narrative is being created.

The Syrian "defector" pilot

Speaking of the emotional appeal of human faces..... where is the Syrian pilot?
Three days ago the main stream media outlets ballyhooed little else. What a coup this was! What a blow to the Syrian regime! I was expecting non stop heart tugging stories from this “defector” who at the speed of light was given political asylum in Jordan. All I got was silence.
Yesterday I mentioned the lack of pictures in the media. Where is the defector?
Today, my question was answered. A picture appears. Sort of.

Would you like to see the picture the NATO media is presenting for public consumption?

Anyone find that a little strange? Ok, how about a lot strange?
Did you notice this picture was taken at his home. That's what is stated below the picture "seen at his home"
Of course being so close up there is no way to ascertain this picture was taken in anyone's home. Let alone the "defectors" home

Odd that the “defection” was initially reported by Jordan as an emergency forced landing. An emergency forced landing? How about an emergency forced landing, which was not voluntary and in fact may have resulted in the death of the pilot?

The propaganda value of such a “defection” was huge and yet still today there is only silence. The defector does not speak, there are no pictures of him “ripping of his medals and kissing the tarmac”. Though these pictures would have been great to bolster the claim of a willing defection they are sorely lacking.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

He knows it did definitely enter Syrian airspace. He knows that was, as INTENDED.
It was not a mistake. It does not happen due to the high speeds that the jets fly.
It does not happen as "routine"
All that is spin. All that is liesFighter pilots KNOW when and how not to enter another nation's airspace.That is what they are trained for!

That fact that he is acknowledging the fighter plane entered Syrian airspace is enough to be sure that Turkey did in fact, blatantly enter Syrian airspace.

Routine air patrols by the Russians pilots who despite flying at high speeds never enter Canadian/North American airspace.

Russian flights are routine and the Conservatives are playing domestic politics at the expense of international diplomacy.

"How are we going to work with a country we have just chastised for not even coming into our airspace?"

Or: "Canada intercepted a pair of nuclear-capable (but they carry no nukes) Russian bombers Wednesday as they approached the North American nation's airspace"

The Russian jets and pilots do not enter Canadian/North American airspace. Despite their high speeds.

Getting back to the Turkish Presidents claims- They are lies. They are spin. The flight into Syrian territory was intentional. Turkey wanted to see what the reaction would be. They tested the waters at a very dangerous time. They put their own pilots at jeopardy for provocation purposes. Turkey undertook an act of war. One among so many they have been involved in.

UPDATE BEGINS

Turkey is backing away. For the time being. It was not insignificant that the President let this admission out.

The claims that this was done in error are simply not credible.
When a military pilot is delivering his "pay load" he knows exactly where he is. That is his job.
Or alternatively, is Turkey implying their air force is inept, which is very unflattering to both the air force and how Turkey conducts the training of their pilots.

Marie/Marty mentioned a possibility of linking this to Russia? It's possible but if this spins in any direction it will be towards demonizing Iran. The plane went down very near Latakia. Syria and Iran have a security agreement with regards to the Latakia facility. I have covered this somewhere on the blog previously.

This reconstruction was to be completed by the end of 2012

`"Under the terms of this new deal, Iran is to assist with the development
of a new military compound which is to be completed by the end of the
year at Latakia airport. Their objective is to open a new supply route
that will enable Iran to directly transfer military equipment to Syria."

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Big news concerning Syria is the alleged defection of a Syrian pilot, who flew his plane into Jordan.
This story has more holes in it then a piece of Swiss cheese
Some inconsistencies in the story And now an update at the bottom, please check it out!

The earliest reporting has the pilot making a forced emergency landing in Jordan.
But that changed to defection.

Checking out SANA first
SANA initially reported that contact had been lost with the plane.

"“Earlier, an official source announced that contact was lost with an MiG-21 aircraft that was on a training flight.”

SANA then reports that the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in Jordan

"In Amman, a Jordanian government source told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the MiG-21 warplane was forced to land in north Jordan."

Since Syrian officials had lost contact with the plane and it's pilot the the information of the "forced landing" had to have come from Jordan.

TS: “A source indicated that Hamadeh is a father of five and a native of restive Idlib province, and that his family is said to be under rebel protection.”

AP: "The pilot is from Deir Ezzor (in eastern Syria) and his family is known
for its opposition" to Assad's regime, spokesman George Sabra added." (The spokesman is of course the opposition giving us a narrative)

As the Toronto Star let's us know.. "his family is under rebel protection"

Is his family under rebel protection? Or has his family been kidnapped? Being spun as "protection"? Is his family being held hostage by the NATO backed rebels??

The rebels are vicious, without a doubt. Therefore, it is not a stretch to believe the pilot may have undertook the "defection" to save his family.

Update here:

Why a pilot? What a pilot now? The psy-op value is huge for the push to war.

When one thinks of disgruntled military personnel wanting to defect, "grunts" come to mind.
The hard fighting, low paid boots on the ground. These individuals have the most to gain by defecting, possible increase in income and status etc., A pilot already has prestige, better pay and is less exposed to the possibility of being shot, exploded and generally blown to smithereens.
Therefore there is less incentive to defect.

Also as this article points out the Syrian Air Force is close to the Assad regime and pilots are very, very loyal.

"Defections in the air force form a real danger to the Syrian regime,” he
added. “The only people who are allowed to join the air force in Syria are
strong regime loyalists.”

The fact that only loyalists are allowed in the air force bolsters the likelihood the pilot was forced to land in Jordan. As was initially reported.

The air force is particularly close to the regime. Mr. al-Assad's late father
and predecessor, Hafez, was an air force pilot"

Making the contention that his family was kidnapped and being held by the rebels all the more plausible.

So why kidnap and hold the family of a pilot, thereby forcing him to "defect" ?

For the obvious reason, or what should be obvious, the pilot is going to provide gut wrenching testimony to bolster the opposition claims that the Syrian army is using planes and helicopters at attack " innocent" persons.

His gut wrenching emotional "testimonials" will get NATO the no fly zone they have wanted all along.

Another quote from above linked article

"The defection came at a time when Syria has started using its air force
against rebels – something it had appeared reluctant to do previously. But in
recent weeks, as rebels attacked government tanks, Syrian troops used helicopter
gunships to besiege opposition areas."

All stories of Syrian troops using helicopter gunships etc have originated with the opposition. I haven't been able to find anything to really bolster those claims. Nothing credible that is.

For NATO to move there war plan to the next level, they have to get their no-fly zone in place. The only way they can "sell" this scheme, to make it palatable, is to create a narrative.

NATO gets a straight out of Hollywood,
summer blockbuster, worthy defection. A daring flight. Pilot allegedly
getting out of the plane and kissing the tarmac. Wow!

To believe that crazy story is to believe that this specific pilot actually spends time on Ambassador Ford's Facebook pageand actually saw the appeal to defect. How likely do you suppose that is?

What seems the most credible scenario is the abduction of the pilot's family by the rebels, Ambassador Ford being made aware of it by his terrorist crew, then setting up the narrative via social media and letting the rest fall into place.

NYT's confirming what has been going on all along in Syria. Who has been supplying arms. How are they getting to the fighters.

Confirming everything that has been posted here for oh so long (15 months and counting)
Validation and confirmation weren't necessary. It was obvious. So interesting to see the underhandedness and covert involvement of the US finally seeing the light of day. Sort of. As you will read there is still plenty of obfuscation. Still no mention of Israel's involvement? Why?

Asmall number (or maybe a large number?) of CIA officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies
decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive
arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and
Arab intelligence officers.

The weapons, including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades,
ammunition and some antitank weapons, are being funneled mostly across
the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries
including Muslim Brotherhood(terrorists) and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the officials said.

The C.I.A. officers have been in southern Turkey for several weeks,( 50 weeks? 60 weeks? how many weeks is "several weeks")in
part to help keep weapons out of the hands of fighters allied with Al
Qaeda or other terrorist groups, one senior American official said.

"in
part to help keep weapons out of the hands of fighters allied with Al
Qaeda or other terrorist groups"

I simply must make a separate comment to that above nonsense.How totally absurd!! How utterly ridiculous. How preposterous!What a line of garbage!How stupid does the NYT's think it readers are? Is the CIA asking for ID? Are there Al Qaeda membership cards?
How would the CIA be certain?
That sentence is so blatantly an in your face LIE!! Would anyone actually take that to be true?
The CIA is there to arm and train the destabilizers. That's it.

The
Obama administration has said it is not providing arms to the rebels,
but it has also acknowledged that Syria’s neighbors would do so. (More absurdity. The US provided the arms to the neighbours to supply the rebels) The clandestine intelligence-gathering ( intelligence gathering?)effort is the most detailed known
instance of the limited American support for the military campaign
against the Syrian government. It is also part of Washington’s attempt
to increase the pressure on President Bashar al Assad of Syria

By helping to vet rebel groups, American intelligence operatives in
Turkey hope to learn more about a growing, changing opposition network
inside of Syria and to establish new ties. “C.I.A. officers are there
and they are trying to make new sources and recruit people,” said one Arab intelligence official who is briefed regularly by American counterparts.

American officials and retired C.I.A. officials said the administration
was also weighing additional assistance to rebels, like providing
satellite imagery and other detailed intelligence on Syrian troop
locations and movements.( Obviously the US has already been providing this service, so more baloney)The administration is also considering whether
to help the opposition set up a rudimentary intelligence service. But no
decisions have been made on those measures or even more aggressive
steps, like sending C.I.A. officers into Syria itself, they said.

What actions undertaken in Syria are suggestive of the US already providing troop locations and movement info to the destabilizers?

" the rebels overran six army checkpoints in the
northern province of Idlib, killing scores of soldier, and mounted a series
of ambushes close to the capital Damascus. There were reports of operations
elsewhere in the country as well.
The attacks killed at least 80 soldiers over the weekend alone"

The large number of soldiers killed in ambushes and targeted assassinations should make clear to the average person that the rebels have had access to detailed intelligence on troop movements and locations for some time now.

Continuing on from NYT's

"What has changed since March is an influx of weapons and ammunition to
the rebels. The increasingly fierce air and artillery assaults by the
government are intended to counter improved coordination, tactics and
weaponry among the opposition forces, according to members of the Syrian
National Council and other activists."

Why make the above paragraph so large? Just making it is as easy to read as possible.

This paragraph makes very clear that the improved coordination, tactics and weaponry supplied to the destabilizers, via the NATO war machine, has increased the ferocity of the destabilization which has directly resulted in an increased response by the Syrian army.Therefore, quite clearly, when Syria's Assad claims Syria is under attack, that is accurate, that is truth.The Syrian army is defending the nation from attack. That is very clearly stated in that paragraph.

Turkish Army vehicles delivered antitank weaponry to the border, where it was then smuggled into Syria.(Despite Turkey's lie of offering 'humanitarian aid only)

“The rebels are starting to crack the code on how to take out tanks,”(With the US offering assistance to enable the rebels to do)

Finally

The State Department said Wednesday that Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton would meet with her Russian counterpart, Sergey V.
Lavrov, on the sidelines of a meeting of Asia-Pacific foreign ministers
in St. Petersburg, Russia, next Thursday. The private talks are likely
to focus, at least in part, on the crisis in Syria.

Late yesterday the story breaks, via the Washington Post also picked up by the BBC , that the US and Israel developed the Flame computer virus to attack Iran's nuclear power efforts.

Why would this admission come out at this time? Why not acknowledge or admit to being involved when the news of the Flame attack first hit the main stream media?

Keeping in mind much of the news makes it's way to the audience when it is necessary or required.

It seems admission of US and Israeli responsibility was leaked to coincide with news of failed talks with Iran.
These talks were doomed to fail. They were intended to fail. The US and Israel did not want any kind of agreement. They want war.

The admission of responsibility timed to coincide with failed talks will excuse the US and Israel for their cyber attack. Really a cyber warfare attack. Which makes Israel and the US the instigators of war.
Since the talks have failed... 'they simply had to do it'. Really, the US and Israel were forced to take such extreme actions against an unreasonable Iran.

Iran and world powers Tuesday failed to narrow differences over the
Iranian nuclear drive after bruising talks in Moscow held amid threats
of a crippling oil embargo or even military action against Tehran.

However the Iranian negotiating team and the world powers led by EU
foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton succeeded in keeping talks alive
by agreeing a process for future meetings. (The EU is being conciliatory, recall how that inflamed the psychotic John Bolton ?)

The United States and
Israel have repeatedly refused to rule out air strikes on Iran against
its nuclear programme, which the West suspects is a cover for a bid for
nuclear weapons, and the Moscow meeting was seen as a crucial last test
for the viability of talks.

Of course the US and Israel refused to rule out attacking, this is after all what they want.

"The fact is that they (Iran) did begin to address the substance for the first time but there is a very long way to go."
Jalili
called the talks "more serious and more realistic" than the rounds held
earlier this year in Istanbul and last month in Baghdad.

He also floated the possibility that the supply of nuclear fuel from abroad could form part of a deal in the future.

But
in an indication that Iran still wanted to enrich uranium to 20
percent, he said: "We insisted on the fact that the enrichment of
uranium for peaceful purposes to all levels is the right of the Islamic
Republic."
Jalili also warned that the widescale oil export
sanctions that the European Union and the United States were now both
set to impose against Iran risked derailing the negotiating process.

"If
a path against this approach is started and certain actions disturb
this approach, it will definitely affect the result of these talks," he
said.

There will be no more negotiating. These negotiations were theatre. Set up to fail.

A senior US administration official, speaking on condition of
anonymity after the talks, said that there would be no softening of the
sanctions against Tehran.

The stamina-busting final day negotiations were also marked by bilateral
talks involving Iran and Russia which apparently stepped in during the
afternoon to ensure the negotiating process stayed on track.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

This ship originated in Kaliningrad, Russia was purported to have been reportedly stopped dead in it’s tracks, unable to provide Syria with helicopters because the ships insurance was cancelled and the ship is heading home to Russia.

Do you notice the words “purported” “reportedly” and “allegedly”?
Nothing concrete. Why?

Here is my take on this story.
The whole sorry tale has been promoted to bolster Hilary’s claim of “Russia sending attack helicopters”
She made the claim last week , I covered that here.
The State department admitted she had ‘put a spin’ on the story.

“She put a little spin on it to put the Russians in a difficult position”
And the boat from Kaliningrad bolstered the narrative for the main stream media audience.

The warship was taking part in the Kiel Week festival in Germany and was not heading to the Mediterranean sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said, adding that the vessel would return to its base after the German voyage, with no plan to visit Tartous.

Reports on the alleged visit were full of loopholes, and the only correct element in the reports is that "the Kaliningrad really belongs to the Baltic Fleet," a ministry spokesman said.

Monday, June 18, 2012

You are thinking, no way ! It isn't going to happen. Israel attack Egypt !
But, they have a peace agreement!
When did something as insignificant as a peace agreement ever get in the way of imperialism, land grabbing, resource grabbing and geo-strategic positioning?

Israel wants the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. This is pretty well known, generally speaking.
If you wanted to be the most powerful nation in the Middle East, you too would want the Sinai Peninsula. It's a pretty strategic place. Using Wikipedia here

It is situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the north, and the Red Sea to the south, and is the only part of Egyptian territory located in Asia as opposed to Africa, effectively serving as a land bridge between two continents.

Yup, quite a strategic piece of property. As they say in real estate "location, location, location"

The Sinai peninsula has it all.

Rehashing.
Israel covets the Sinai Peninsula. Strategically speaking it is one hot property.
Israel always forgets the "though shalt not covet thy neighbours goods" kind of stuff.. the one handed down by their God.
Egypt is in chaos.The election in Egypt is a mess. In my opinion, intentionally so.
Remember order out of chaos...Muslim Brotherhood is going to take that election and Israel is going to be loving it.

The Muslim Brotherhood election "win" more credibly a theft, same as in Greece just the other day and Canada last year, will give Israel the pretext they need to launch an attack.
The Egyptian military is wholly owned by the US, so expect them to be easily defeated.
Many unsuspecting Egyptians will die fighting
Sorry, getting ahead of myself here

Getting back to the news items keep that keep appearing to me as the clues to war.
The news of attacks emanating from the Sinai Peninsula on Israel. Today, another one.

"Militants (Whoever they are? Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists ? Not mentioned)who
crossed into Israel from Egypt's Sinai desert fired on Israelis building
a barrier on the border on Monday, killing one worker, before soldiers
shot dead two of the attackers, Israel's military said"

These attacks play right into Israel's hand. They are all the bait needed to reel in the big one.These attacks will serve as pretexts for Israel to launch an attack?

The IDF
has deployed Armored forces near the Israel -Egypt
border, moving tanks closer to the fence, Ynet has learned. The unusual move followed Monday's attack on defense contractor crews building the new security fence.

Ynet was able to
document the presence of Israeli tanks in close proximity to the border –
maneuvers which are barred by Jerusalem's peace treaty
with Cairo.

That's right! The movement of tanks to the border is barred by the peace treaty with Cairo!

We are supposed to believe the tank movement was a response to the so called attack. Not likely.
Early in May, there was news that caused me to be a little suspicious that something was afoot with Egypt and Syria. Notice that date of this article? Large and in red.
Israel prepares for Mideast war-May 04/2012

Today, Israel prepares for Mideast conflict; recently, six army
battalions were called up to meet threats from Egyptian and Syrian
borders
The Times of Israel
reported that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) gave emergency call up
orders to six reserve battalions due to ongoing hostilities developing
on the Egyptian and Syrian borders.

The Knesset gave the IDF permission
to summon 16 additional reserve battalions when required, according to
Israeli press on Wednesday, 2 May 2012. These actions demonstrate the
severity of the tensions growing among Israel, Syria, and Egypt. Israel
needs its army in place when it attacks Iran because Syria, Hezbollah
and Hamas will immediately strike Israel; therefore, the IDF must be
ready

Notice the "when Israel attacks Iran" Israel the aggressor. Obviously

So, the tank movement being reported on today? Is it a response to the "attack" that took place at the border today, really?

Or, as is the more likely scenario, taking into consideration the news of war preparations being undertaken by Israel minimally six weeks ago, that Israel is preparing to take the Sinai territory as part of a larger middle east war.

It looks as if there will be a larger war "theatre" then just an attack on Syria.As always, here is hoping I am wrong.

"As the crisis in Egypt unfolds, the Egyptian military emerges as the
most important factor in determining its immediate future. Critical too
are U.S. links with the Egyptian military Washington's primary source of influence over what will happen.""Continuing
support for the Egyptian military will be crucial for U.S. influence
and for an evolution in Egypt that can meet American interests."

"One
reason Egypt's military responded to the demonstrations so positively
has been its long-standing ties to the U.S. military, stretching back
three decades"

Think about this?

War is .....

...THE CONTINUATION OF STATE POLICY, BY OTHER MEANS

.......A POLITICAL ACTIVITY IN WHICH VIOLENCE IS USED TO BEND THE WILL OF YOUR ENEMY TO THAT OF YOUR OWN

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